February 2008 Archives
-
Openfire (formerly Wildfire) is a real time collaboration (RTC) server dual-licensed under the Open Source GPL and commercially. It uses the only widely adopted open protocol for instant messaging, XMPP (also called Jabber). Openfire is incredibly easy to
-
Clearspace is enterprise collaboration software built from the ground up for teams, companies and communities looking for an easy and productive way to work with each other without time or location limitations. Eliminate redundant conversations, meetings,
-
This document describes the GitTorrent Protocol version 0.1, referred to as "GTP/0.1". The GitTorrent Protocol (GTP) is a protocol for collaborative git repository distribution across the Internet. It is best classified as a peer-to-peer (P2P) protocol, a
-
Google Sites, a new offering from Google Apps, makes creating a team site as easy as editing a document. Use Google Sites to centralize all types of information -- from videos to presentations -- and share your site with just a few people, your entire org
-
ClickHeat is a visual heatmap of clicks on a HTML page, showing hot and cold click zones.
-
Junction is the glue between your application and its database. Easy to use and extensible, Junction allows developers to focus on building applications instead of worrying about state persistence.
-
"Yet Another Multicolumn Layout" (YAML) is an (X)HTML/CSS framework for creating modern and flexible floated layouts. The structure is extremely versatile in its programming and absolutely accessible for end users.
-
piwik is an open source (GPL license) web analytics software. It gives interesting reports on your website visitors, your popular pages, the search engines keywords they used, the language they speak… and so much more.
-
NicEdit is a Javascript/AJAX inline content editor to allow easy editing of web site content on the fly in the browser. It integrates into any site in seconds to make any element/div editable or convert standard textareas to rich text editing. You can try
-
TinyMCE is a platform independent web based Javascript HTML WYSIWYG editor control released as Open Source under LGPL by Moxiecode Systems AB. It has the ability to convert HTML TEXTAREA fields or other HTML elements to editor instances. TinyMCE is very e
-
This plugin is an inline content editor to allow editing rich HTML content on the fly. It's an alternative to WYMeditor with much less features. With a small file size less than 17Kb total and only 9Kb of code, the main concept is to keep it simple, not a
-
Xinha (pronounced like Xena, the Warrior Princess) is a powerful WYSIWYG HTML editor component that works in Mozilla based browsers as well as in MS Internet Explorer. Its configurabilty and extensibility make it easy to build just the right editor for mu
-
Cryptography is for most web developers like a vast and endless ocean of intimidating un-absorb-able information. Which is sad, since cryptography is so useful and in many situations absolutely necessary. I will not even try to explain why, since I consid
-
Include makes it simple to include and compress JavaScript files no matter how complex the dependencies. Focus on organization with logically separated JavaScript files.
-
The Google Email Uploader is a desktop utility for Microsoft Windows that uploads email from other desktop email programs (like Microsoft Outlook) into your Google Apps mailbox. The Email Uploader preserves information such as sent dates and sender/recipi
-
Below are the entries published to date, in PDF format, from the 5 Room Dungeon contest. I hope you can use these dungeons in your games, or for design seeds and inspiration.
-
This was something I've searched for in the past but have yet to find. It's a super simple server and I'm sure there's a few bugs left in it, but the idea is simple and in my opinion, necessary. It's easy to send email from websites, but receiving it stil
-
The subprime crisis is just the tip of the iceberg. Fundamental changes in American life may turn today’s McMansions into tomorrow’s tenements.
-
* This site serves as a supplement to the Rails for PHP Developers book published by The Pragmatic Programmers. Our goal is to make it as easy as possible for you to add Rails as a tool to your development toolbox. If you’re proficient with
-
This guide aims to be a simple, logical tutorial showing how to develop a simple Rails messaging system with all of the trimmings with Ruby on Rails (v2.0.2). This tutorial is intended for beginner to intermediate Rails users. If you've never used Rails b
-
Learning Rails takes you step-by-step through all the concepts behind Ruby on Rails.
-
The MVC pattern very commonly used in constructing web applications. The principle allows us to construct 3-tier applications, allowing us useful layers of seperation in our code, and helping both designers and developers to cooperate as well enhancing ou
-
andLinux is a complete Ubuntu Linux system running seamlessly in Windows 2000 based systems (2000, XP, 2003, Vista [32-bit only]). This project was started for Dynamism for the GP2X community, but its userbase far exceeds its original design. andLinux is
-
Planet Stories™ presents classic fantasy, science fiction, and science fantasy novels and short story collections to a generation of new readers and lifelong fans. Unforgettable tales from acknowledged masters like Michael Moorcock, Leigh Brackett, C.L.
-
Senator Obama has been able to develop innovative approaches to challenge the status quo and get results. Americans are tired of divisive ideological politics, which is why Senator Obama has reached out to Republicans to find areas of common ground. He ha
-
Perhaps the natural progression of an industry is innovation, consolidation, then litigation. To judge by the number of lawyers who have been contacting me lately to serve as an expert witness in patent lawsuits, it seems that Internet applications hav
-
DVD43 is a free DVD decryption utility that runs in the background and decrypts DVDs. This site will help you find sites that host DVD43 so you don't have to pay money for a decrypter. This website does not host the DVD43 setup file and is not affiliated
-
First, and foremost, it’s too expensive. To send a kid to college you need from $200,000 to $400,000. That’s insane. There’s no way the incremental advantage they get from having a diploma will ever pay back that amount. Perhaps for the first time t
-
The plugin contains two template sets: 1. Classic Blog - Advanced - the current working version of the default templates that came with MT4.1. 2. Classic Blog - Simple - a simpler version of the default templates that produces the same html, but has m
-
Cropper is a screen capture utility written in C#. It makes it fast and easy to grab parts of your screen. Use it to easily crop out sections of vector graphic files such as Fireworks without having to flatten the files or open in a new editor. Use it to
-
WP Interface is a plugin for Movable Type that provides a user interface very similar to Wordpress.
-
I just finished reading The Female Brain (Dr. Louann Brizendine MD) and learned some fascinating facts about the neurochemical make-up of women and how it impacts our behavior. Here are some interesting nuggets I came away with:
-
Appcelerator is a next-generation, open source web platform for developing Rich Internet Applications (RIA) on a Services Oriented Architecture (SOA). Appcelerator is standards-based, supports all modern web browsers and can be developed in Java, .NET,
-
There are essentially only two uses for a survival rifle: 1) To kill game for food. 2) For use as a personal protection weapon.
-
1. The Prime Directive is just a suggestion. 2. Always shoot first. Every good leader should be willing to do what he or she asks of her team. 3. Don't be afraid to hook up with a cute spaceman. 4. When you're about to go genocidal, get a second opi
-
* WYMstyle is a set of CSS files, that you can easily combine to very quickly create the layout of your web sites. * WYMstyle aims to suppress the tedious compatibility testing across browsers for each created website, by providing CSS modules w
-
Easily publish pictures, videos, and other rich content to your blog
-
In order to easily distinguish between multiple computers, we give them names. Experience has taught us that it is as easy to choose bad names as it is to choose good ones. This essay presents guidelines for deciding what makes a name good or bad.
-
Hypertable is an open source project based on published best practices and our own experience in solving large-scale data-intensive tasks. Our goal is to bring the benefits of new levels of both performance and scale to many data-driven businesses who are
-
vShare YouTube Clone is a PHP/MySQL script that allow you to run successful video sharing portal like YouTube.com, DailyMotion, Google Video, etc...
-
Persecuted Jews create an artificial monster to protect themselves from their enemies. This legend may have prompted Mary Shelley to write her famous novel about Dr. Frankenstein and his man-like creation.
-
BurnAware allows you to easily perform the most common disc burning operations: write to all CD/DVD media types, including Blu-Ray (BD-R/BD-RE); create and burn disc images; write multi-session discs; verify the integrity of files; burn your compilations
-
This article explains what are stream handlers and how they simplify PHP developers lives by allowing PHP applications to easily read and write data from containers, like remote Web pages or e-mail messages, as if they were files.
-
As the state housing finance agency, our mission is to provide safe, decent, affordable housing opportunities.
-
SelfImage is capable of making an image file of a hard disk or hard disk partition, and can restore an image back to any drive or partition that doesn't have open files. Useful for making backups. Unlike dd for Windows (or cygwin), SelfImage is capable
-
The simple way to clone a Windows disk. Happens to be a quicker way in daily backup.
-
PuTTY Tray is an improved version of PuTTY (Win32). It features some cosmetic changes, and a number of addons to make it more useful and much more fun to use.
-
PuTTY Connection Manager is a free PuTTY Client Add-on for Windows platforms which goal is to provide a solution for managing multiple PuTTY instances. This is one of the most important missing feature of PuTTY
-
Videora 2.0 is the latest version of our new personal video downloading program. Utilizing BitTorrent peer to peer technology and Really Simple Syndication (RSS) feeds, Videora automatically and intelligently finds and downloads video you want to watch. W
-
The PHP Hypertext Preprocessor (PHP) is a programming language that allows web developers to create dynamic content that interacts with databases. PHP is basically used for developing web based software applications. This tutorial helps you to buil
-
Ruby on Rails is an extremely productive web application framework written in Ruby by David Heinemeier Hansson. This is a open source Ruby framework for developing database-backed web applications. This tutorial will give you a complete understandin